Thread: Using Recall

Ok, so I've read the tutorials and looked through some posts but a lot of people don't seem to have the same problem I do. How exactly do you wake up several times a night to remember a dream? Now an obvious answer might be to set alarms strategically to where you would awaken during REM stages...but I'd wake up everyone in my house with my alarm. I almost never wake up in the middle of the night, which only gives me an oppurtunity to remember one dream in the morning (which I rarely recall.) Suggestions?

Hmmm, that's a hard one......
Do you perhaps have a phone that you could set to vibrate? If you then set an alarm for the middle of the night, then I find that the vibrating of the phone next to my head usually always wakes me up. Once you start the habit of waking up after your dreams, you should find that you do it naturally after a while. That's what happened to me anyways......

Sorry, I can't think of any other suggestions!
Anyone else?

Ah yes, like Night Wolf said, a phone might really help with this.

Another idea might be to go to bed with a real intent on remembering your dreams. Your mind is a very powerful thing and this works for most people, so it should work for you.

Those suggestions aren't so good. You can wake yourself up by intending to do so. Wish and intent to remember your dreams, before sleep, should wake you up after REM (if you wish that it happens so). I really don't know why everybody is so hot about alarm-clocks and other technical devices. All you need is yourself.

Well...Drink lots of water...


OR perhaps more with more dignity, get a progressive type alarm clock. Their alarm slowly increases from soft to loud so as to not awake everyone and be more natural :)

One problem with them- they may interfere with dreaming.

I would also agree with the train who thought he could


What i mean to say is, try "telling" yourself to wake up after a dream. It works well if you repeat it. I used to do that to wake at 6:00am everymorn

The way I did it with relative ease, was to not worry about waking up in the middle of the night. When I woke up in the morning, usually to an alarm, I would write down the dream that I had just had...even if it was very hazy and non-descript. After only a few nights of this I began to wake up naturally after every single dream. I don't even need my alarm clock anymore, and I seem to wake up very refreshed each time I awake at the end of a cycle instead of in the middle.

Don't you ever wake up at all in the middle of the night? Sometimes a particularly weird or vivid dream will drive me out of sleep - and this is the best time to write that dream down. If you never wake up in the middle of the night, I agree with everyone else's suggestions (drink lots of water before bed, set your internal alarm to wake up, tell yourself repeatedly before you go to sleep that you will remember your dreams, or get an alarm clock to wake you up). There's not much to do besides these suggestions - and everyone creates their own techniques that work best for them. Everyone is different, therefore everyone must come up with their own unique ways of doing it. Good luck!